Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-30
INEXPENSIVE LIVING.
How q Healthy Person Can Live and
Grow Fat ON d Dime a Day.

How Healthy Person Can Live and
Grow Fat a Dime Day.
At the gathering of scientists in CO.
lumbia College a learned professor
fascinated his superintendent hear
ers by telling them that a laboring
man needs daily one-fourth pound
of proteine. one-fourth pound fat, and
a pound of carbo-hy drates'' to keep
him we'll and strong. If the knowl-
ed ge-seeking laborer goes 10 the store
for his four ounces of proteine his ex-
pertinent will scarcely increase his
filth in the marketing knowledge of
scientists. What the laborer and what
most of us need more than technical
essays on the physiological and
Fecundary Economy of Food" is a
plain talk about sensible feeding and
economical marketing.
"How to live and thrive on a dime
p er day" may stand as the text for
this talk. 1t certainly can be done,
and, though the experiment may be
uninviing, it is certain that good
health is nearer akin to the simplest
diet than TO the costliest
Now as to the laboring man and his
proteine. Tell him that three-fourths
of his weight is water, and that to re-
store the days waste he has to take
food, three -fourths of which must be
water. and the remainder Fl. sh-form-
ing, heat-giving and bone-makin SUBJ
stances, he will understand the case
better. Give him table of foods,
analysed to show just how much heat
giving, fesh-forming and mineral mat
ter there is in each food, an he will
soon take as deep an interest in what
he eats because of its worth to him as
because of its taste. When he finds
out-as he can in half an hour-that
only twenty-four parts in every hum
dred of but cher's meat count as flesh
formers, the rest being water, but that
from seventy live to ninety parts out
of every hundred in dried peas BEANS
oat and wheat meals and cheese are
nutritious, and only ten to twenty-five
parts waste water, he from that mo-
ment begins to use his common sense
in feeding as he does in earning his
living. The popular rule is: Never pay
any heed to the feeding value of our
diet; Jet us cultivate a glorious ig-
norance of the purpose of foods and go
in might and main for palate -ticklers
and dyspepsia.
just a fact or two as appetizers.
The great Peninsular and Oriental (P.
and O. Steamship Company employ
East Indian coolies to do the hardest
work on their steamers because they
are stronger, healthier and stand the
climate better than Englishmen, and
because not being meat eaters-their
diet costs only six cents per day.
There are miners in the English coal
pits. the hardest workers in the land,
who have not eaten any kind of meat
for years. / am not vegetarian, be-
cause / hankar after the flesh pots,
and their savory odors cast spell
over my innocent soul; yet expert
mented for one whole year without
tasting flesh or gravy in any form, and
all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased. The dock por-
ters of Constantinople carry heavier
burdens-two hundred and fifty pounds
and upward easily than the
laborers of En- gland and America, yet
their main diet is bread and figs. and
they are teetotal and vegetarian. The
laborers in Spain live chiefly ON bread
and onions. and are marvelously
strong.
The fesh-aad- blood superstition is
baseless. A horse is almost as strong.
swift. healthy and handsome as a two
legged man, and they both have the
same internal machinery; the one eats
beef and enjoys dyspepsia the other
avoids it and fourishes. Ten cents
worth or meat, oatmeal, rice. fruits,
but ermilk, bread, cheese, onions or
portions of several of these will enable
a man to do his ordinary days work
at least as we'll as any assortment of
goods he can buy for dollar.
What would be a good diet for those
who do not need to study their purses,
yet who would like a simple. healthy
and enjoy able dietary? To such l
would say drop the heavy meat break
fast right away. Not that meats bad,
but it is not the best to start the day
on. Bread (not the spoiled white
stuff, but the natural dark-colored
wheat, as ground), tea or cocoa, eggs
and the hundred and one non-fesh
dishes, with little fish, and as much
fruit as you like. That S model meal,
as experience will prove.
Talking of fish. the more the better.
Pound for pound it is as nutritious as
flesh, though it doesn't seem to fill US
so fully, and its chemical value. is far
above that of meats. When I have
extra hard brain work to do, say an
average of twelve or fourteen hours
for two or three weeks at stretch, /
knock off meats entirely and eat all
the fish | can. Result, perfect health